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help please on hay bale heater

Hello folks,
I'm starting a New Zealand rabbit farm. I have a 40x100 barn for the rabbits. I have to keep it warm enough mainly to keep the water from frezing( around 45 or 50) I'm thinking of useing a hay bale heater. 6'x15'x1/4" pipe fire box with forced air on the fire on a thermastat 55 gallon drum as a heat reclamer. The only thing I do not understand is how to build the door.... It is going to be on the out side of a roon in the weather so I have to isulate it but still have it so it will easly open( so my wife can load the stove) How could I do this with out woarping and able to keep a seal and open enough to get a 4x5 rould bale in it. Thank-you..

It does not matter how long, how much, or how you done it there is some one out there that knows more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (something I have learn the hard way)

Re: help please on hay bale heater

Ought to work good. I started my round bales on fire years ago when I was burning brush piles and the wind shifted. The bales burned/smoldered in layers for around 3 days.

Was quite a day........I called the fire department, they came and immediately suggested that I make a firebreak in the bale area. I have around from 150-300 round bales stored in a relatively small area near the dry lot.

While the fire doods hosed me down, I was able to stay on the tractor and remove enough bales to make the fire break. It was pretty weird, couldn't see in front of me as soon as I entered the smoke. And the water was real cold when it me. My loader tractor has no windows in the cab except for the windshield.

As it was, with the help of the fire guys, I only lost 60 bales to the fire.

Re: help please on hay bale heater

As it was, with the help of the fire guys, I only lost 60 bales to the fire.

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Re: help please on hay bale heater

thank-you guts for the help... I'm traiding the rabbit dropings to a man tht is useing it on his hey fields and he is giving me the "junk" hay off a new field he bought... so free fuel...... I just have to get this heater to work and free heat.......The water system is a gravity fead.... KISS..... is my way

It does not matter how long, how much, or how you done it there is some one out there that knows more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (something I have learn the hard way)

Re: help please on hay bale heater

Originally Posted by damiana rabbitry

thank-you guts for the help... I'm traiding the rabbit dropings to a man tht is useing it on his hey fields and he is giving me the "junk" hay off a new field he bought... so free fuel...... I just have to get this heater to work and free heat.......The water system is a gravity fead.... KISS..... is my way

ok gravity feed , is it from a well pump or spring, if spring just let it run through a drain at end and have fresh water all the time, if from well then you dont want to waste all that water..

Re: help please on hay bale heater

Originally Posted by damiana rabbitry

The water is coming from rual water supply. fill small tank with flat valve then grav to the cages

when you say rural water supply do you mean a spring or stream on your property?..I have a farm upstae NY and have many water sauces that flow year round and can gravity feed the barn so the water will never freeze..